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Posted by Brian Cryer on 11/01/05 18:36
"harry" <a@abc.com> wrote in message
news:B5L9f.141991$G8.61533@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> Using IE 5.5 (sp3) on win 2000 (sp4) with Office 2002 professional - no
> other browser is required i.e. Intranet app!
>
> I have the following HTML -
>
> <a target="_blank" href="http://localhost:8001/MyWeb/y.doc" >
> <img border="0" alt="Show page help" src="images/buttons/help.gif"
> style="cursor:hand">
> </a>
>
> I want the Word document to open in a new window with the Word Viewer
> showing the document formatted correctly however all it does is display
> the
> DOC file as is i.e. gibberish.
>
> I know this can work as I've seen it on other systems whereby the DOC or
> XLS
> file is displayed inline in the Browser window!
>
> I'm guessing this has something to do with the MIME type note being set?
> but
> have no idea how to set it? is it in IE settings or what?
>
> Can anyone help? this has completely baffled me!
>
> thanks
>
> harry
Does it work if you replace:
href="http://...
with
href="file://...
thats what we have on our local intranet. You could also try:
href="//...
but I'm not so sure about that one.
Hope this helps.
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Brian Cryer
www.cryer.co.uk/brian
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